To encounter Hans van Wingerden’s art is to stand within a field of thought shaped by light. It is to realize that illumination is never neutral, that every act of seeing carries an ethical demand. Like Flavin’s glowing corridors, his works alter the architecture of perception. But where Flavin dissolved the object into pure sensation, van Wingerden reintroduces conscience into the equation. His light is not simply there to be seen; it is there to make us see ourselves.
